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SCIENCE. 



LN. S. Vol. VIII. No. 200. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



In his opening lecture to the engineering 

 students at Cambridge, on October 14th, Pro- 

 fessor Ewing intimated that the crowded state 

 of their lecture rooms and laboratories would 

 soon be relieved. A gift of £5,000 had just 

 been made for the addition of a new wing to the 

 engineering laboratory in memory of the late 

 Dr. John Hopkinson and of his son, John Gus- 

 tave Hopkinson, who recently lost their lives 

 in the Alps. Dr. Hopkinson's son was to have 

 begun work at this time as a student of engi- 

 neering at Cambridge. This gift was made by 

 Mrs. Hopkinson jointly with her son Bertram 

 and her surviving daughter. 



The litigation commenced by the heirs of the 

 late Dr. Elizabeth Bates, who left a bequest of 

 $160,000 to the Michigan University, seems in 

 a fair way to end in favor of that institution. 

 It is reported that the contestants of the will 

 have concluded to relinquish all claim to the 

 personal property of the decedent, amounting 

 to $120,000, and the Court has ordered this 

 amount to be turned over to the University au- 

 thorities. This leaves only the remainder of 

 the bequest, $40,000, which is the subject of 

 litigation. 



Miss Wheelee has presented $5,000 to the 

 permanent library fund of Williams College, as 

 a memorial to her father, who was a graduate 

 of the College. 



Commemoration Day at Princeton Uni- 

 versity, which has been established since the 

 sesquiceutennial two years ago, was celebrated 

 on October 22d, the chief event being an ad- 

 dress by President D. C. Oilman, of Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



It is understood that Professor G. J. Brush, 

 Director of the Sheffield Scientific School, will 

 retire next January, after service as executive 

 head of the School since 1872. 



De. B. Mooee, formei'ly instructor in physi- 

 ology in University College Hospital, has been 

 appointed professor of physiology in the Yale 

 Medical School. 



Dr. Albeet Mathews has been appointed 

 assistant professor of physiology at Tufts Col- 



LuciEN N. Sullivan, of the ShefiSeld Scien- 

 tific School, and John C. Peck, of the Rose 

 Polytechnic Institute, have been appointed in- 

 structors in mechanical engineering in Lehigh 

 University. 



The chair of botany at Oberlin College, va- 

 cant by the death of Professor Herbert Jones, 

 has been filled by the appointment of Freder- 

 ick O. rover. Mr. Grover was graduated 

 from Dartmouth in 1890, and subsequently con- 

 tinued his studies at Harvard University. 



The faculty of the University of Vienna, says 

 The Philadelphia Medical Journal, has nominated 

 the following, in the order named, one of whom 

 shall succeed the late Professor Strieker, pro- 

 fessor of experimental pathology : Professor von 

 Mering, of Halle ; Professor Knoll, of Prague ; 

 Professor Klemensiewicz, of Gratz ; Professor 

 Lowit, of Innsbruck. 



Professor Bartholomew Price, Master of 

 Pembroke College, has resigned the Sedleian 

 chair of natural philosophy at Oxford Uni- 

 versity on the completion of his eightieth 

 year. Oxford University has suffered a more 

 serious loss in the resignation of Professor 

 Ray Lankester to accept the Directorship of 

 the Natural History Museum. Oxford is not 

 so strong in science that it can aflTord any loss, 

 and it is to be hoped that chairs in physics and 

 comparative anatomy may be filled by men of 

 science who will exert an important influence 

 in the much needed development of the Uni- 

 versity. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



A EULE FOE FINDING THE DAY OF THE WEEK 

 CORRESPONDING TO A GIVEN DATE.* 



' Perpetual ' calendars that can be con- 

 sulted with greater or less readiness are to be 

 found in works on astronomy and in encyclo- 

 psedias, but I have not found any published 

 rule for the simple problem of determining 

 mentally the day of the week without reference 

 to a calendar or lengthy table. Therefore, I 

 venture to submit the rule that I have devised 

 for this purpose. 



* Read at the Fifth Summer Meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Mathematical Society. 



